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For sailors who dream of exploring Australia’s east coast but can’t spare weeks to sail there at a leisurely pace, there’s an alternative to waiting out weather windows and crawling along at six knots: trailer the boat, drive around the bad weather at highway speed, and sail only the best parts. 

That’s exactly what Glenn and Deanna did aboard La Mer, their Corsair 880 folding trailerable trimaran, alongside their eight-year-old dog Bella. Over several months, the couple covered roughly 3,500km one way—from the Gippsland Lakes in Victoria to the Whitsundays in Queensland—launching and retrieving the boat at ramps along the way.

My wife and I have owned four Seawinds over the last 15 years, culminating in our current boat – an 1160 Lite delivered in June 2022. We’ve had huge fun racing and cruising the boat up and down the coast of New South Wales and so you can imagine how keen we were to take up the offer to check out the new 1160XL, with a cruise from Seawind‘s new Thailand charter operation.

The new Seawind 1160XL is one of the best valued performance catamarans, but it’s quickly becoming Australia’s best selling catamaran with 7 new boats on their way this season.